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Subject: Re: FYI: vendor specific nl80211 API upstream
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 12:36 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing that you guys considered and rejected the idea of pushing 
> these out to a separate, vendor specific genl family instead?

We do actually use that internally (though mostly for cases where we
don't have a cfg80211 connection like manufacturing support), but vendor
commands are there and people do like to use them :-)

The idea with formalizing this is that they actually get more
visibility, and I hope that this will lead to more forming of real
nl80211 API too.

johannes